The Sermon on the Plain has been the focus of the scriptures in worship. The teaching about loving our enemies and not judging people is...

The Texas legislature has recently moved to put biblical stories into school curriculums. Is this a good move?

There has been a lot of attention paid to forgetting names in the national news. It is more important to remember who we are. When we...

I have a children’s book that has a good message. It is about a farm that is a mess. The farmer doesn’t do all the things he was supposed...

Camp meeting is almost here but it is much more than an annual event. Camp meetings became a part of the American religious landscape...

Years ago, when we still did charge conference at individual churches, we were asked to set goals for the coming year. If we were...

We started a fire in the fireplace on a cold night recently. As the logs burned down, one piece of wood fell away from the heart of the...

A small group of five or six families gathered in New York before the Revolutionary war wanting to start the first Methodist chapel in...

I have been listening to an audio book by Victor Frankl called “Yes to Life.” You may remember that Frankl was a psychologist who...

There has been a lot of talk in the churches in the area about leaving the United Methodist Church. That will not be me. I have been...

Summer time is a good time for a story: There was an tribe that found it was required to move their village. The tribal leaders decided...

At the Diamondback Jubilee there was no shortage of people at the snake area. We have a fascination with danger. We slow down to see car...

At the Pastor’s and Professionals’ Meeting in Austin this week, we talked about being weary. We were weary of having to take COVID into...

We have been in the pandemic for over a year now. We don’t like being in emergency mode for that long. We are willing to change our...